Judges and Judiciary
Orange County Posts Online Court Survey
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld
SANTA ANA - Have a gripe or compliment for the Orange County Superior Court? Attorneys who use its seven justice centers can s...
Large Firms
Gibson Dunn Associate Returns A Partner After Fox-Group Stint
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles office of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher has welcomed back labor and entertainment attorney Jeffrey ...
One of the challenges of presiding over complex arbitrations is providing the parties the process they need without burdening ...
In the end, the doctors wound up hurting themselves. In what could be the first case of its kind to go to trial, a jury on Mar...
LOS ANGELES - Most disabled students will fail the new high-school exit exam because of the discriminatory manner in which the...
Entertainment & Sports
Artists Sue MP3.com for Copyright Infringement
By Marisa Navarro
LOS ANGELES - After settling with the major record labels, and even a minor one, MP3.com, an online provider of digital music,...
LOS ANGELES - The American heir to paintings stolen by Nazis during World War II may fight to retrieve the paintings in a U.S....
Labor/Employment
Court Rules Stock Options Still Valid for Ex-Worker
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Firing an employee for business reasons cannot be classified as a firing due to deficient performance solely t...
Intellectual Property
Dot What? Top-Level Domain Names Win Group's Approval
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO - Executives of four of the seven new top-level domains recently approved by the Internet Corporation for Assign...
Criminal
Dispute Rages Over DUI Blood Test Technicians
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
VICTORVILLE - William Komar, 70, had just plowed his car into another vehicle on a desolate stretch of I-15 last December when...
SAN FRANCISCO - Seattle's oldest and largest firm, Preston Gates & Ellis, has brought two lawyers into its San Francisco o...
SAN FRANCISCO - Take a man who's served his prison time and now tell him he'll be locked up indefinitely in a state hospital a...
Labor/Employment
Screen Actors Guild Sets Sights on Striking a Deal
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - One down, one to go. Now that the Writers Guild of America has reached a tentative labor agreement with the Asso...
SAN FRANCISCO - Pacific Gas & Electric Co. will formally object to the appointment of a committee to represent ratepayers ...
Dear Anne: Our law firm's Web site was developed several years ago. The information is current, but it is starting to look dat...
Administrative/Regulatory
DA Has Curious Interest in Sheriff''s Internal Probes
By Columnist
Traditional law enforcement never wants anyone outside the fraternity to investigate their conduct because they feel secure th...
SACRAMENTO - The state Fair Political Practices Commission ruled Monday that the Political Reform Act does not bar the city of...
The satellite office of a major law firm dominated by male litigators recently was compared to a sports bar by one of its asso...
SAN FRANCISCO - It was almost as if a fire or an earthquake had hit the Bar Association of San Francisco. Without warning, the...
SAN FRANCISCO - Veteran federal prosecutor John W. Kennedy and San Francisco personal injury and medical malpractice specialis...
SACRAMENTO - A year has passed since a scandal over mishandled Northridge Earthquake funds rocked the state Department of Insu...
Guideline child support Dissomaster calculations - sometimes referred to as "those dang things" (the "apt phrase" of the tria...
SAN DIEGO - The first Mexican citizen to be sent to the United States for trial since the Mexican Supreme Court in January aut...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles city attorney has filed a misdemeanor complaint against attorney Shawn Snider Chapman, who repre...
SAN DIEGO - Never mind the dog. Richard R. Espinosa claims that it was his own civil rights that were violated Nov. 16 when th...
RIVERSIDE - The California Highway Patrol is not immune from liability in a fatal crash that occurred on a remote desert road ...
SANTA ANA - An Orange County-based engineering firm will pay the U.S. government $8.2 million to settle a whistle-blower lawsu...
SANTA ANA - A candidate for the Yorba Linda City Council is scheduled to be arraigned today on charges of lying about his plac...
Secrecy agreements are standard for large corporations in product liability lawsuits. The agreements are reached by plaintiffs...
LOS ANGELES - California law bars attorneys from seeking payment for representing themselves in disputes with clients, but co-...